The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ToLsToI, the lion of letters in Russia, has in
terested all Eutope by a fresh deliverance CON
corning Napoleon's Moscow march
AN exchange says: Never go nto the wate-
after a hearty meal" We don't. We go to tho
restaurant after it-Philadelphia Call.
A PROUD father in Duquesne, Penn, has
named his first boy Thomas Benton Schnatter-
ly Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty F1emming.
MACHINES have recently been introduced in
the Paris lying in hospitals for saving infants
prematurely born otherwise deficient in vi
talty. The apparatus is similar to egg Matching
machines.
ISAAC CLARK who since 1884 has been an in
mate of the New Haven almshouse. is dying of
old age having lived 100 years. He was born
at Montauk Point and in early life was Nan
tucket sailor.
REV. DR.. A. P. PEABODY, who is beloved by
several generations of Harvard men, has written
some Personal "reminiscences of Harvard
College sixty years ago, which will be published
early next year.
Rev. DR.. PARKER, of London. declined to
preach in Plymouth Church. Chicago, because
the congregations had refused to adopt resolu-
lions of coincidence to Mrs. Beecher after the
demise of her husband.
BRUNSWICK (Me.) Telegraph: good method
to prevent stoop in the shoulders is to walk
with the palms of the hands turned forward
the thumbs outward Try it, and you will find
your shoulders erect before you are aware of it,
THE Sankey Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Newcastle, Pa, have received from a
friend of the evangelist large-sized portrait of
Sturgeon, probably the only one of its kind in
this country with Surgeons autograph at
tached
THE favorite stage of the late King Louis of
Bavaria has been purchased by travelling cir
Gus. Even his shirts have been sold at auction.
Imperial Louis dead and turned to clay" is
not meeting with much respect from his erst-
while subjects
A WOMEN in red dress was walking in the
streets of Zacatecas Mexico, when a bull, at
tracted by the scarlet color, rushed at her and
tossed her sky-h high. She alighted on the
ground, her hustle, on the other side of a
wall, and without injury
MARTHA's VINEYARD Herald: Martha's Vine
yard is that fortunate county in the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, in which neither crime
nor criminals exist. Five thousand people dwell
this island in peace our jail is a useless for
mality. and police are unknown.
Ex-SECRETARY MANNING lives very quiet
life He is constantly under a physicians care.
The latter will not permit him to walk any
great distance or climb single fight of stairs.
Mr.. Manning has, therefore. had an elevator
placed in his new home Fifth avenue. He
always rides in his carriage to and from his of
fee
AN example of colloquialisms is the use of the
Pennsylvania Dutch word ''all." The Dutch
never say that anything is "gone," but that it is
'all." When the sauer kraut barrel is empty,
the kraut is ''all." One article of diet is never
'all" either at tavern farmhouse. That is
pie. The Dutch in Pennsylvania add pie to the
viands which the .'staff of life"
CHARLES RoLLrN BRAINARD. a newspaper and
magazine writer of some merit, has been for
some weeks in the Oshkosh Wis., insane asylum
and hearing on his mental condition will be
held in January. Brainard married Elizabeth
H. Washburn, q niece of Henry Ward Beecher
He has always been regarded as cratic but
many of his friends consider him thoroughly
sane.
THE hundredth anniversary of the waltz
occurs the Goth of next month. On Dec 20,
1887, Vincent Martin presented opera in
Vienna which contained a new dance which at
once became popular. This dance the
waltz-a dance which bids fair to be popular
until the last man and last woman over
come by cold and loneliness that they have no
heart for gayety.
A MISSOURI editor publishes the follow ing
headed Important Corrections" "a story cir
culated around town this week by persons who
ought to be in better business, that while we
were attending the reception of Mr.. and Mrs
Cleveland at Kansas City we got drunk and
stood on the street corner roaring like colicky
elephant and making the assertion that we were
from Bitter Creek and could lick any President
that ever looked through collar, is absolutely
false What We did do, and all we did. was to
.-et drunk try 70 pound policeman who was